Sentence examples for desertion for from inspiring English sources

The self-preservation act of leaving is curdled by a sense of desertion for letting the status quo stand.

The podcast phenomenon Serial has returned as a high-profile platform for Bowe Bergdahl, the US army sergeant who spent five years in Taliban captivity after vanishing from his post in Afghanistan, to speak publicly about his alleged desertion for the first time.

Biparental care is expected to occur if (1) the costs of desertion for a parent are high, because of greatly reduced survival prospects of offspring, or (2) the benefits of desertion are low.

We acknowledge that we are not able to reveal the causality of male desertion for which the egg-laying order needs to be known.

Ceased advertisement calls of a male over a longer period of time could be the result of the male's death, a territory take-over by another male or brood desertion for unknown reasons.

It picks up a pair of Confederate soldiers, Will Kirkland and Arly Wilcox, who were waiting in prison to be executed, respectively, for desertion and for sleeping on picket duty, and who, released to fight in a battle, change into Union uniforms and are in turn captured by the Confederates and, in the fog of war, let loose again.

In the first quarter of the current fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, 871 soldiers deserted, a rate that, if it stays on pace, would produce 3,484 desertions for the fiscal year, an 8percentt increase over 2006.

It recounted the story of two young sailors who, even though the war has ended, are executed for desertion from the Wehrmacht.

Even the BBC's own news service joined the tabloid front pages in reporting a "desertion" of viewers for a show that averages 70 million internationally.

Many of the Australian sailors were chafing under the severity of naval discipline and what they saw as excessive punishment for minor breaches; one example was of a sailor who was charged with desertion, imprisoned for three months, and lost all pay for staying out too late on Armistice Day.

He had already been condemned in his absence to death for treason, twenty years for desertion, and twenty years for stealing a naval vessel.